August 2008

An extensive album of photos taken at the Schwarzenau, Germany, 300th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Brethren movement has been posted on the Church of the Brethren website. The photos are by COB photographer Glenn Riegel. To page through the albums, go to www.brethren.org and click on “photo journal.”

There is still time to give toward the Women of Grace Celebration ’08 (FGBC national conference) projects. Gifts will be received through August 31 and will help children who attend schools that are sponsored by Grace Brethren churches in Haiti. The goal for the project is $3,500. So far, only $2,180 has been received. Two

The USA Water Polo Team, which includes Tim Hutten (pictured at right), a member of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Seal Beach, Calif., is one step closer to earning a medal in the Bejing 2008 Olympic Games. They defeated Germany 8-7 on Monday (August 18) at the Ying Tung Natatorium and in

The Grace Brethren Church of Portis, Kansas, and its pastor, Dave Sarver, have been very much in the news and in the prayers of Grace Brethren people since the March 25 murder of one of the men from the church in the small rural town. Today the announcement was made of an arrest in the

The Grace Brethren Investment Foundation (GBIF) has recently approved a first mortgage loan of $3.4 million for the combined ministries of the East Side Grace Brethren Church (Pastor Chip Heim)/ Grace Christian School (Administrator Cindy Phillips) in Blacklick, Ohio, to refinance two existing GBIF notes and add $2.6 million to construct a 30,000 square foot

On August 10, Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, pastor) celebrated the opening of their new 30,000 square foot addition. The new facility provides a venue for simulcast of the message from the main auditorium, space for young adults, room for children’s ministries (Kids City and 56th Street), and

Andy Wirt, church planter at ClearView Church, a developing Grace Brethren church in northeast Franklin County, Ohio, is being featured as the Pastor of the Week on WRFD 880 AM Christian radio station in Central Ohio. The program airs each afternoon at 3 p.m. Each spot features several mentions of ClearView’s website and information about

“Follow the sunflower” was the admonition as Nichole Plaster (holding sunflower) set off to lead the Brethren Heritage Tour group on a walking tour of Paris all day Wednesday. Several dozen historic sites are included in the tour, all detailed in a small guidebook which Nichole has created. This will be the final posting from

Sheila Hazzard (left), who is on the staff of the Sunnyside, Washington, Grace Brethren Church, led the Brethren Heritage Tour in a prayer for the French people after the group had toured the majestic Notre Dame Cathedral (construction begun 1163) a few blocks from the group’s hotel in Paris.